The 12 Buzziest Releases To Look Out For At Sundance 2025

The 2025 edition of the Sundance Film Festival – poised to run from 23 January to 2 February in Utah’s Park City and Salt Lake City – finds the beloved mountainside showcase at its most idiosyncratic: starry, of course, but also independently minded, irreverent and often delightfully weird. From a hair-raising horror centred on Ayo Edebiri to a rambunctious musical featuring J Lo, these are the 12 releases not to miss this time around.

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Actor Hailey Gates (Uncut Gems, Challengers) makes her feature debut with this inventive, razor-sharp rom-com, which unfolds in a military role-playing facility on the edge of LA (yes, really), where a performer who dreams of being a real actor (Alia Shawkat) falls for a soldier (Dua Lipa’s beau, Callum Turner) cast as an insurgent. Add Chloë Sevigny in a supporting role and Luca Guadagnino as a producer, and you have what feels like a cult classic in the making.